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In the last three days, postal ballot facilitation booths in Thimphu saw a voter turnout of 77.8 percent since the opening of the postal ballot facilitations and mobile booths on September 7. Of a total 22,663 registered voters in north Thimphu, the six postal ballot facilitation booths saw 17,036 voters …

With 390 voters turning up, more than 80 percent of 455 registered postal ballot voters cast their ballot in Gasa from September 7 to 9 in the two facilitation booths in Gasa Primary School and Bjishong Central School. Of the total, 86 percent were female and 85 percent male. Seventy-six …

Paro saw voter turnout of about 5,220 at facilitation booths between September 7 and 9. Paro had four postal ballot facilitation booths, one each at Wanakha Central School (CS), Shaba Higher Secondary School (HSS), Drukgyel CS, and Paro College of Education (PCE). A total of 6,705 voters had registered for …

A total of 2,679 voters, 1,392 female and 1,287 male cast their postal ballots in the three days in Trongsa. The three postal ballot facilitation booths (FB) in Trongsa saw a good number of female voters turning up to cast their ballots. The facilitation booth at the College of language …

Namgay Dema, 80, from Trashi Yangtse was perhaps the oldest and one of the early voters who showed up to cast her postal ballot at the facilitation booth at Lhuentse High School on the first day of the voting that kicked on September 7. Like others, she waited in queue …

Bolero pickups and motorbikes have increased in Lhamoizingkha, Dagana, but the old and common mode of transport of riding bicycles among farmers still exists. Unlike in urban areas, where people bike for health and fitness reasons, it is a necessity for farmers in the locality. Although some farmers have shifted …

The reconstruction work at Drukgyel dzong in Paro is 40 percent complete, according to the project officials. The work is estimated to complete by December 2022. The reconstruction works began in April 2016 after the command of His Majesty The King to celebrate the birth of His Royal Highness (HRH) …

The Office of the Media Arbitrator’s investigation has found that the Facebook post by former National Council chairperson Dasho Sonam Kinga (PhD) is a third party election advertising under section 7.2 of the Social Media Rules. The investigation found Dasho Sonam Kinga’s Facebook post in violation of Section 4.4 of …

Zhemgang saw a good turn out on the first day of voting through the facilitation booth (FB) service. The two FB in Zhemgang’s upper and lower Kheng region, saw a total of 519 voters, 321 female and 208 male come to vote. The FB service at the Zhemgang central school …

With a large number of voters turning up at the Samdrupjongkhar MSS postal ballot facilitation booth, the voting time extended until 10pm yesterday. The officials had distributed token to those voters who came before 7pm. A total of 766 voters, which include 356 male and 410 female cast their ballots …

The scene at the facilitation booth at the Phuentsholing Middle Secondary School yesterday could provide a peek into why Bhutan’s elections see more women voters than men. Expecting mothers, mother with child, some sleeping while standing in line with their mothers not bothered by the push and shove and the …

About 102 Bhutanese trucks with their drivers stranded in Banglabandha, Bangladesh since August 31 re-entered the Indian border, Fulbari yesterday evening. Bhutanese trucks carrying stones and boulders to Bangladesh use the India-Bangladesh border, Fulbari-Banglabandha. The trucks drop the materials and return empty. However, the trucks and the drivers were held …

The country’s international reserve position as of August this year was at USD 1.1B, of which the rupee reserve forms Rs 20.5B. Convertible currency reserve was at USD 817M.
The rupee reserve in the beginning of the year was Rs 23B, the highest in 2018. In the following month of February, it fell to Rs 17B and dipped to Rs 11B in April, which gradually picked up. This is according to the Royal Monetary Authority’s (RMA) recent monthly statistical bulletin.

Team Young Vets won this year’s Veteran Basketball Championship tournament. The Merlins finished as runner-up. The tournament was organised by the Basketball Federation of Bhutan. A total of eight men’s teams participated in the competition. (Photo: BFB Facebook Page)

Far away in Shah Alam, Malaysia, an international conference on Gross National Happiness is going on. Community vitality, one of the nine domains of GNH, is the theme of the conference. From the GNH perspective, it is one theme that we should be looking deeper even at home. This is …

Some time back, at a workshop organized by RCSC for civil servants with 10 years of service left and then at a closing session of a YPLP forum organized by RIGSS, I had the opportunity to share some of my thoughts on retirement, mostly based on my own experience. Something …